Reversible window-sash



G. SCHMIDT.

REVERSIBLE WINDOW SASH.

Patented Nov. 8, 1-892.

WITNESSES "UNi'TED STArEs PATENT ()FFICEa GOTTLIEB SCHMIDT, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA/ REVERSIBLE WlNDOW-SASH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,887, dated November8, 1892.

Application filed October 31, 1891. Serial No. 410,435. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GOTTLIEB SCHMIDT, citizenof the United States, residing in the city and c'ountyof Philadelphia,State of Pen nsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inReversible Window-Sashes,

which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in reversible window-sashes and itconsists, first, of a sash provided with inner and outer frames by whichit maybe swung inwardly, the outer frames having hinged meeting-rails aswell as raised and lowered.

It further consists of a window-sash having an outer frame with a hingedmeeting-rail and a controlling-spring for the latch thereof,substantially as described.

It further consists of the combination of parts hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a window with sashes embodyingmy invention, the same being closed. Fig. 2 represents a perspectiveview of the device shown in Fig. 1, the inner sashes being open. Fig. 3rep resents a sectional view on line as 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents asectional view on line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a view, partlysectional and broken away, of a sash embodying my invention. Figs. 6 and7 represent perspective views of detail portions of the device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a window-frame, and B and 0upper and lower sash-frames vertically movable therein. The sash-framesB and O are provided with the inner frames D and E, respectively, whichcarry the pane or panes of glass and are hinged to the stiles of theouter frames B and C, so as to be swung within the apartment of the roomin which the windows are located, and thereby rendered easily accessibleto parties within the apartment both sides of the panes for cleaning thesame. Catches F on the sides of the swinging sashes D and E secure thesame when closed to the outer frames. The meeting-rails G H,respectively, of the two saslrframes B and C are each hinged at one endto a stile of. their respective frame, so as to be adapted to be movedfrom across the window-frame, and thereby free the same of anyobstruction from top to bottom thereof. The said meeting-rails G and H,as shown, are hinged, so that the rail G of the upper sash will swingdownward and the rail H of the lower sash will swing upward, (see dottedlines,) so that they maybe operated when the sashes B and O are closed.To secure the ends of the said meeting-rails to the opposite stile fromthat to which they are hinged, each of the said stiles is provided witha shoulder J, against which the end of the meeting-rail abuts, and atenon K, which fits into a mortise L on the end of the saidmeeting-rail. A spring-bolt M locks the said meeting-rail and stiletogether.

To look the sashes B and 0 when closed, a latch N is employed, the samebeing pivoted at one end in an opening in the upper sashframe and havinga spring]? connected therewith, normally forcing'its outer end acrossthe upper face of the other sash. The upper face of the locking end ofthe latch is beveled, so that when in the movement of either of theupper and lower sashes their meeting-rails are to pass each other. Thelatch is automatically pushed back into the opening, thus permitting thefree movement of the sash.

The hinges of the sash E are formed so as to permit the lifting of thesaid sash from the outer frame and the substitution therein of a framecontaining a screen.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A reversible window-sash consisting oftwo inner and two outer frames, each of the outer frames havingvertically-movable side stiles and hinged meeting-rails and each of theinner frames being hinged to a side stile of an outerframe,substantially as described.

2. A reversible window sash having a hinged meeting-rail and a sidestile on which the meeting-rail closes, said rail and stile havingtenon-and-mortise joints, substantially as described.

3-. A reversible wi'ndow-sash having, an "inher and outer frame, theinnenframe being hinged to the outerframe and the outer frame having ahinged meeting-rail, said parts being 5 combined substantially asdescribed.

4. A window-sash having" hinged meetingrails, a pivoted latch securedtoa meetingrail, and a .coiij-trolling spring,fer said latch, said partsbeing combined substantially as described.

GOTTLIEB SCHMIDT. Witnesses:

J HN A. \VVIEDERSHEIM, 'R. H." GRAESER';

